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Trump arrived in the Oval Office at a moment when levels of inequality in the United States approached those of Russia. Wealth and income in the United States had not been so unevenly distributed between the top 0.1% and the rest of the population since 1929, the year before the Great Depression.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #oligarchy
When Trump spoke of “making America great again,” his followers thought of the decades after the Second World War, a time when inequality was shrinking. Trump himself meant the disastrous 1930s—and not just the Great Depression as it had actually happened, but something even more extreme and frightful…
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #maga
The slogan of Trump’s campaign and his presidency was “America First.” This was a reference to the 1930s… The public face of the America First movement, the pilot Charles Lindbergh, argued that the United States ought to make common cause with Nazis as fellow white Europeans.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #usa
”The people” always means, as Trump himself put it, “the real people,” not the entire citizenry, but some chosen group.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#trump
…just as the Trump administration questioned the wisdom of fighting Hitler, it also questioned the wisdom of fighting slavery.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
In the minds of some of Trump’s supporters, the approval of the Holocaust and the endorsement of slavery were intertwined: … Nazi and Confederate symbols appeared together.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
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